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Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining plans major expansion

Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Co. plans to add up to 130 employees starting late this year as it spends nearly $600 million during the next three years to expand the state's largest gold mine.

The expansion, which will extend mining at the site near Victor until 2025, also will create another 300 construction jobs to complete a new leach field, recovery center and milling facility. The construction project will allow the mine to expand its annual output by about 40 percent to 350,000 ounces of gold, said Ray DuBois, the company's vice president and general manager.

State regulators approved the project in September, the second major extension of mining at the site since operations resumed there in 1994. Read more at The Gazette.

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